Özet:

The way how İstanbul noun was pronounced in Ottoman Turkish period can be detached through transcription texts in which the vowels and consonants of the words were recorded explicitly in Latin letters, not through the texts written in Arabic script. The noun İstanbul transferred form Greek stambóli ~ stembóli(n) ~ stimbóli(n) forms into Ottoman Turkish and was pronounced with 15 different forms by Ottomans. The decisive reason for these different pronunciations are whether there is a vowel in the beginning position, the situation of ن and ب before pronunciation of the final vowel as rounded or unrounded. In the present article the way how İstanbul noun was pronounced during Ottoman Turkish period and their process of becoming Turkish elements are analyzed in 38 transcription texts.